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Tasteless articles go into making superficial art (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tattooing

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'art' is the definition.
(I know that tattooing is a type of body art)

'tasteless articles go into making' is the wordplay.
'tasteless articles' becomes 'tat' (I've seen this in other clues).
'making' is an anagram indicator.
'go'+'into'='gointo'
'gointo' is an anagram of 'tooing'.
'tat'+'tooing'='TATTOOING'

'superficial' is the link.
This may not be right. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Another definition for tattooing that I've seen is " Working on body image".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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